Best of Delaware 2011: Food and Restaurants: Crab Cakes: Seasons Pizza and Claws Seafood House in Rehoboth Beach: Brasserie Grille and Courtyard Café in Newark

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Brasserie Grille, Courtyard CaféBrasserie Grille, Christiana Hilton, 100 Continental Drive, Newark, 454-1500, brasseriegrille.comCourtyard Café, Newark-University of Delaware, 400 David Hollowell Drive, Newark, 737-0900, udel.edu/hotel/ It’s impossible for us to choose between chef Mark Chopko’s classics at the Courtyard or chef James Lauser’s at the Brasserie. Both are pure crab. Both are the very essence of the Eastern Shore.